North Carolina · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,235,006 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ($12,231,406). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $241k
What Alliance for Children does
Mission
To support vital programs and policies that have a positive impact on the quality of life of children birth to age 5 and their families, by advocating, collaborating and being fiscally responsible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nc pre k services rendered to parents by helping them enroll their 4-year-old child in pre-kindergarten programs by processing approximately 444 applications. Purchased services from 21 classrooms serving 286 children. Pre-k masters activity designed to promote continuous quality improvement of nc pre-k classrooms through providing technical assistance consultation and coaching as well as training for dcdee credit hours provided on child care related topics and coordination of ceu opportunities. Offered 9 trainings impacting 12 licensed facilities and 46 staff. 128 technical assistance visits.
$2,699,631 spentof which $2,442,981 as grants74% of program spendingChild care & education quality service activities include -1) smart start resource center(ssrc) - offers more than 5,000 age appropriate multi-cultrual and education materials for checkout. 206 total visits to ssrc, 38 cild care facilities impacted, 1031 total visits to the lending library. 2) smart start maintaining and sustaining teachers, environments and rating scales(masters) designed to promote continous quality improvement of child care centers and/or homes through training and technical assistance. 7 trainings offered, 5 technical assistance sites received grants, 62 early resouce staff technical assistance visits, 64 child care staff trained from licensed facalities, 33 staff trained from unlicensed facilities. 3) education stars - provides tuition, books and fees for college credit courses to child care teachers in licensed child care facilities. 34 early childhood professionals (ecp) enrolled in class; 10 ecps had tuition paid; 27 participating ecps completing 4 semester hours earned a b grade or higher; 6 participating administrators completing course:child care administration 1 received a b grade or higher.
$259,718 spentof which $185,725 as grants7% of program spendingFamily support service activities include- 1) best start - worked with teen parents on parenting skills, parent-child relations, and crisis intervention and referrals. 42 mothers and fathers served, 34 received at least 1 incentive. 94% remained in school or graduated from high school; 71% untilization of referrals for additional resources. 2) parenting support & nurturing parenting - 13 week evidence based parenting education program. 74 parents registered; 83 children impacted. 722 individual nurturing parenting program sessions completed; 11 group sessions completed. 3) community education - worked to increase public awareness of early childhood issues and activities of Alliance for Children and the smart start and nc pre-k programs. Engaged 15,600 individuals via social media; 12 partnership newsletters/e-news blasts; 100 volunteers contributed volunteer hours to the partnership; conducted 3 community presentations to strengthen relationships within the community; organized 13 outreach events to support children and families in union county.4) circle of parents - program where parents and trained professionals can openly discuss the successes and challenges of raising children…
$436,320 spentof which $337,880 as grants12% of program spendingHealth & safety -1) breastfeeding support-up to two bilingual spanish speaking peer counselors promoted breastfeeding by supplying training and support to mothers. 886 post-partum women served.2) inclusion support-activity designed to support the inclusion of children with emotional, behavioral and/or identified special needs in the child care setting through providing technical assistance and training using the teaching pyramid observation tool(tpot). 16 teachers received tpot assessments/coaching; 5 child care facilities provided tpot; 89 technical assistance visits conducted; 9 trainings offered with 227 staff trained. 46 general technical visits conducted.3) child care health consultant - promote health and safe environments for children in child care settings through consultation, training and technical assistance. 41 childcare facilities received consultation services; 552 staff attending specific child care facility training; 81 trainings offered; 192 technical assistance visits.
$241,800 spentof which $156,047 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,637,469.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $210k to $442k (+111%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Trinisha K Dean
Executive director
Board chair
Gene Robbins
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.5M.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN?
- ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,235,006 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ($12,231,406). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $12,235,006 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN?
- NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,231,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing